CityEvents
Place Selling in a Media Age
Ward Rennen
9789056294946
276 pages
Amsterdam University Press
Overview
Large international events like the Olympic Games put cities on the world map. CityEvents, place selling in a Media Age addresses the question how cities have been raising their profile internationally by hosting large international events throughout the twentieth century. It explores this question by introducing the CityEvent model. This model allows for the study of large international events from a threefold perspective, analytically integrating the roles of the media, host cities and event owners with each other. By means of this model, developments and transformations in the hosting of events are reconstructed in relation to historical developments in the media. This thesis provides a history of event-based place selling and simultaneously offers insights into the hosting of current and future events. The cities of Amsterdam, Berlin and Helsinki, both as hosts of the Olympic Games and as European Capitals of Culture, feature as case studies.
Author Bio
Ward Rennen is a consultant specialized in city-marketing and city-branding. As a fellow of the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, he conducted his PhD studies at the department of Media and Cuture of the University of Amsterdam. He is a co-founder of the Graduate Journal of Social Science.
